Second Part

0:09:07 Schneider, Geertz and Fallers developed their own idiom called cultural analysis, which was a complete change of emphasis following the ideas of Ruth Benedict; Geertz left for Princeton in the early 1970's, but prior during the 1960's the Chicago department turned itself around; Julian Pitt-Rivers taught me and I learnt much from him that was practical and immediate, valuable for my first experience of field work in New Guinea; my book, 'The Invention of Culture' was written because I had become increasingly annoyed with the type of anthropology that was being done at Northwestern when I was there, and didn't come up to what they were doing at Chicago; theme of the book described; invention opposed to construction of culture; book first published by Prentice Hall where the first chapters were a little turgid; later republished by Chicago where I was allowed to change the worst two pages; I teach Wittgenstein and Borges, also Ursula le Guin, and why

20:09:09 Symbols, and explanation of the paradox; Gregory Bateson and his idea of the feedback loop described

31:45:19 Own fieldwork site was chosen for me; University of Washington had an open competition among graduate students for the New Guinea native religions project; I had a plan to study Australian Aborigines if I did not go to New Guinea; had a dream that I was getting into an airliner and was going to Australia to do fieldwork but in mid-flight the plane turned into a single-engined Cessna which landed on a grass airstrip which I realized was New Guinea; woke to find a telegram announcing that I was to go to New Guinea; 4-5 months later I was in that Cessna, landing on that strip; was totally bewildered and confused; had never been to another country before; had a bad start, got sick trying to live on a native diet; lived in the village for a year and a few months and that was the nicest time in my whole life; had wonderful rapport with the Daribi; they had only been contacted in the previous two or three years; they wouldn't tell you anything, but it was a remarkable experience; my mother had died just before I left and it was like a rebirth; after my initial fieldwork and writing my dissertation at Chicago, I got a job at Southern Illinois for a few years; I married there and my wife then came with me for another ten or eleven months; that was a much better time as I knew what to ask them; the Daribi have a ritual, the Habu, that I had just missed attending the first time which turned out to be extremely important; I was able to attend it, photograph it and participate in it; that experience was the subject of my second book which was much better than my dissertation; it is one of the few anthropological monographs that has been used as the basis for science fiction; I returned in 2000; on my second trip I had heard that the colonial government which was about to leave New Guinea had secretly been buying up a lot of land to resettle 5,000 Chimbus there; Chimbus are aggressive people and had manipulated the Daribi in the past; I took political action and wrote about ethnocide in and Australian political journal; that resulted in very little except for the Governor General having press conferences against me in Port Moresby so it was not advisable to go back; a correspondent, Ian Hicks, from the Sydney Morning Herald picked it up with the result that the Labour Government informed the Governor General that there would be no resettlement; since then the Daribi have increased their population so there are now 20,000 of them; when I eventually went back in 2000 it was wonderful, and I did discover things I would never have guessed existed there

41:04:24 My father's family were Marxists; father rational, atheistic, hard-working; I identified with this and didn't thinks seriously about religion until much later in my life; the work of Castaneda has been rightly criticized but I have evidence that he really did do fieldwork with Mexican people but not the Yaqui; David McKnight's work on bats and own findings on the Daribi attitude to bats; analogy of God as a bat at a cocktail party; recollective and anticipatory  selves; the totality of the selves according to Castaneda's Don Juan, and the nature of death